Huntsville gazette., 1887-08-06
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1887.

| The latest sensation at London is the re-
port that Jay Gould is going into the Chi
nese banking business,
The jury in the celebrated case of DIR. Alf
Mccoy, at Portsmouth, o., charged with
the murder ofDr. Northrup, returned a
verdict on the 1st. Mccoy is adjudged
| guilty OF murder in the second degree.
| On the morning of the 1st James Martin,
| aged seventeen years, fell from the
| Brooklyn bridge. He was carrying pail
OF color along the south track when he
missed his footing and fell between the
| sleepers down to the river beneath. He
was rescued apparently uninjured.
| THERE was christening on the night of
the 31st in the family of VIM. Mullen, in
| Brooklyn, which broke up about midnight
in desperate fight, in which one man was
killed, woman fatally wounded and two
or three others cut and bruised.
| GEORGE WHITTsTEIN, furniture dealer
| at Bridgeport, Conn.,, in fit of jealousy on
the 1st, shot his wife three times, then,
pointing the pistol at his mouth, shot him
self. He died in fifteen minutes. One of
the three shots which struck his wife
entered the right lung and lodged in the
| spine. 1t will prove fatal.
| MRS. ANNA SMOOTH, wife of Howard
Smooth, of Adamsville, O., was arrested
on the night of the 31st charged with pois-
oning her child, three years old. The cor
oner has made an analysis of the child's
stomach, showing that it had received
more than enough Paris green to cause
death. Tw other children of this woman
have died suddenly within the past ten
years.
| Mr.. BLAINE has extended the time of his
tour abroad indefinitely. He intends
travelling on the continent this summer
and will winter near the Mediterranean.
The Secretary of State received on the
1st, from Toxic, the sad intelligence of the
death of Mrs. Hubbard, the wife Of the
| United States Minister to Japan. Mrs.
Hubbard had been in ill health for many
months.
| FROM fifteen to twenty deaths from
| cholera are reported in Catania, Italy,
| daily. The epidemic is spreading in the
| provinces. In Syracuse and Calabria the
| condition of affairs has improved.
| THE Secretary of the Navy has issued in
| structions that the United States steamer
Michigan shall be at Detroit ON the 14th
and 10th of September to take part in the
ceremonies of the reunion of the Army of
the Tennessee, and at Chicago from the 1st
! to the Goth Of October for the military en-
| campment.
AT Bridlington, England, on the 1st, the
mile handicap bicycle race for professional
riders was won by Temyle, of Chicago.
Morgan, of New York, was second, and
| Woodside, of Philadelphia, third. The
| fve-mile race for the international cham
pionship was won by Woodside in 14:50 81.
REV. WILLIAM HAGUE, D. D., aged
seventy-nine, senior pastor of the Wollas-
bor Heights Baptist Church, Boston,
| dropped dead in front of fremont Temple
on the 1st. Mr.. Hague had at various times
| been pastor of churches in Utica, Jamaica
Plains, Albany, N. Y, and Providence,
| R. l.
| In the Kentucky State election, on the
| 1st, the full Democratic ticket was elected
| by large but somewhat reduced majorities,
the Republicans showing heavy gains in
some sections. Buckner, for Governor,
| ran ahead of his ticket. Local option was
| defeated in Louisville. The Legislature
| will be larely Democratic, as usual.